“lakota nation vs. the united states”
great documentary on the lakota nation and their quest for justice – quite an interesting film to view in these trying times. saw this again for the third time tonight (if you count movies seen on flights as one) available on apple tv and on youtube – well worth the watch, especially if you pay for it xx by xy
john delorean and his wife cristina ferrare
the design of the DMC 12 by giorgetto giugiaro
the factory in belfast smack in the middle of the IRA wars
great BBC docu on the downfall
john delorean worked at GMC (general motors company) and became one of its highly paid presidents, he was cocky and brash and surely pissed off a lot of top brass at the company. he was fired / he resigned (depending whom you ask) to build his dream car company named DMC (delorean motors company). GMC was not happy. margaret thatcher and ronlad reagans FBI somehow were involved in bringing the company down and convicting john delorean on drug charges. he was ruined, the company went bankrupt, but all charges where dropped. john became a born again christian and supposedly went to heaven. by uh
peace: photographs by jim marshall
“the peace symbol as we know it today was designed in 1958 by gerald holto”
haight street san francisco 1967 (© jim marshall photography)
a new exhibit with previously unseen photographs by jim marshall at the san francisco art exchange (SFAE).
almost 60 years after the creation of the CND peace symbol, marshall’s body of “peace” photographs is a “beautiful and thoughtful reflection from one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century,”
no on the travel ban oakland 1965
the exhibit is in celebration of the release of marshall’s new book jim marshall: peace, released by reel art press, according to a press release. the forward is written by street artist shepard fairey, the book’s text is written by peter doggett… and joan baez, provides the book’s afterword
peace walk for nuclear disarmament golden gate park 1962
free speech rally telegraph ave. berkeley 1968
marshall was one of the most recognized photographs in the history of music. he also explored the changing times of the 1960s, photographing the creativity and celebrity. he started documenting the CND peace symbol and peace rallies as a personal project, reel art press writes. the photographs had remained in his archives until now. the photographs were taken between 1961 and 1968 across america.
new york city photographed at newport folk festival in 1963
jim marshall 1936-2010
the CND peace symbol was designed in 1958 by gerald holtom for the british campaign for nuclear disarmament, reports reel art press. the symbol then spread from the uk to the us. marshall’s photographs document the symbol’s different meanings over time, starting as a symbol for “ban the bomb”-specific protests, and ending up as an international sign for peace. by xy
charles mingus at a peace rally circa 1967
charles mingus – don’t let it happen here
“…one day they came and they took the communists, and i said nothing because i was not a communist.
then one day they came and they took the people of the Jewish faith, and i said nothing because i had no faith.
then one day they came and took the unionists, and i said nothing because i was not a unionist.
they burned the Catholic churches one day, and i said nothing because i was a protestant.
one day they came and they took me, and i could say nothing because i was as guilty as they were of genocide, destroying the rights of any man to live…”
some great words by charles mingus, genuine people should follow them regardless of the parties – follow them when they effects the jews and follow them when they effects the palestinians. cease fire now, free the hostages, stop the illegal settlements, demand a just peace, there is no humane alternative – by xy
WWI
sykes-picot-agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the united kingdom and france, with assent from the russian empire and the kingdom of italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the (turkish) ottoman empire.
full documentary : how britain started the arab-israeli conflict
“the bitter struggle between arab and jew for control of the holy land has caused untold suffering in the middle east for generations. it is often claimed that the crisis originated with jewish emigration to palestine and the foundation of the state of israel. yet the roots of the conflict are to be found much earlier – in british double-dealing during the first world war. this is a story of intrigue among rival empires; of misguided strategies; and of how conflicting promises to arab and jew created a legacy of bloodshed which determined the fate of the middle east.” a good watch – one more documentary to better understand the world we live in. by dd
we are all trying to sort out how we got here? the atrocities on oct 7th were hard to take in, followed by more blood and death on the other side, which is also hard to accept. let us try and understand how we got here. why cant these 2 people (palestinians and israelis) live together in peace like they did until they didn’t some 75 years ago?
let us clarify that there are two categories of arabs living there – and they are often referred to “interchangeably”. they are those 1- the arab-citizens of israel who live in israel proper and those 2- the palestinians living in westbank and gaza who are facing much harsher set of realities such as settlements in west bank and check points across their territory. this article from “council on foreign relations” ( cfr.org ) refers to the ones living in israel proper as “citizens of israel”.
“council on foreign relations” was established in 1921 and is currently run by michael froman (president) and david rubenstein (chirman).
unedited excerpts :”israel’s declaration of independence recognizes the equality of all the country’s residents, arabs included, but equality is not explicitly enshrined in israel’s basic laws, the closest thing it has to a constitution. some rights groups argue that dozens of laws indirectly or directly discriminate against arabs.
israel’s establishment as an explicitly jewish state is a primary point of contention, with many of the state’s critics arguing that this by nature casts non-jews as second-class citizens with fewer rights. the 1950 law of return, for example, grants all jews, as well as their children, grandchildren, and spouses, the right to move to israel and automatically gain citizenship. non-jews do not have these rights. palestinians and their descendants have no legal right to return to the lands their families held before being displaced in 1948 or 1967.
another major difference is that, unlike the vast majority of jewish israelis, arab citizens do not have to serve in the israel defense forces (IDF), the country’s military. they can still enlist, and some do, especially druze and circassians, but some are stigmatized in their communities as a result. yet, not enlisting can significantly disadvantage them both socially and economically. for instance, many israelis make important and lasting personal connections with their fellow citizens through the idf, and they also receive many financial benefits, such as education assistance and discounted permits for building homes and owning land.”
“statistics from IDI show that arab citizens of israel continue to face structural disadvantages. for example, poorly funded schools in their localities contribute to their attaining lower levels of education and their reduced employment prospects and earning power compared to israeli jews. more than half of the country’s arab families were considered poor in 2020, compared to 40 percent of jewish families. socioeconomic disparities between israel’s jewish and arab citizens are less pronounced in mixed cities, though a government audit in july 2022 found arabs had less access to municipal services in those cities.
a good historic context in the recent history of the conflict and the rise of netanyahu, america & the road to war in gaza (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
gideon levy is an ex IDF soldier and an israeli journalist for the israeli daily haaretz
interview with gigi and bela hadid father mohamed anwar hadid who is from palestine and was born there
arab citizens’ concerns about inequality mounted after israel passed its nation-state law in 2018. among other provisions, the law removed arabic as an official language but gave it a “special status,” declared israel the nation-state of the jewish people, and said the jewish people have a unique “right to exercise national self-determination in the state of israel.” the language left many arabs feeling that their rights as citizens were being undermined.
to address disparities in the so-called arab sector, in 2021, the government approved a $9 billion, five-year plan to boost employment, improve health-care services and housing, and develop infrastructure, among other goals. it followed a similar initiative by the previous prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, who designated more funding for the sector than any of his predecessors, even as he frequently incited anger toward the arab community.” and then there is the west bank and gaza which is another story – the full article currently available here. by xy
omer bartov born 1954 is an israeli-born historian
bartov also served as a soldier in the IDF between 1973-1976. he is the samuel pisar professor of holocaust and genocide studies at brown university, where he has taught since 2000. bartov is a noted historian of the holocaust.
“the US holocaust museum has sighted him as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide.”
thank you amy goodman and democracy now for this very insightful and informative interview. always good to hear it from an expert. by xy
60 minutes archives
now that xy is on a history lesson trip, here’s a great snippet into the past
before the world lost their mind – and when there was still some hope for peace
they try and make is sound complicated but its really not…
there is a land that 3 religions find sacred. they once all lived together on the same land. they can do so again. if you just stop the dehumanizing language of racism and hate and fucking with one another until one side goes mental. rinse repeat. you have to stop demanding the entire place for yourself, and using civilian terror tactics to win. we need a fair and just mediator as these people have been unable to make peace for 75 years and the way its going there is none in sight. finally, not that there is a god, but if there was one for all you delusional people, no one god gave this land to any one people. if you believe that i gotta a book that gives me everything you got. finally lets be fair, be nice — if you are in charge, find a way to live together and stop calling it a “religious state” for just one of the 3 faiths, or split the land 3 ways or make it a UNESCO world heritage site with no one government ruling it. i’m no politician but you guys are fucking up the entire world over this shit piece of land 90% of us don’t care about… by dd
a pretty IDF soldier checks our reporter
a deeply personal documentary, dena spends a day in hebron retracing the footsteps of her father, who was born and raised in hebron. our reporter is given a tour by a kind hearted Israeli IDF ex-soldier. it is a look at life before october 7th massacres in the palestinian west bank territories which was and is not controlled by hamas
while these stories of human suffering can be heart breaking, i hope you can see there are good and righteous people everywhere including the IDF which you may believe to be harsh as they defend their country. there are also so many israeli’s who have stood up against the collateral damage that is the killing of innocent woman and children and do not support netanyahu. as long as there is hate and bigotry on either side there will be no peace and both governments are guilty of not delivering that to the good people of each side.
finally this can not be watched without a bit of history on how this country came to be and why. “how israel was created“
please educate yourselves by reading and watching multiple sides of the same story and judge for yourself. everything is biased, some are more biased than others. I find these to be factual and fair, but that is me.
if you watch this and you feel hatred in you, you are falling for the trap that is set for us all. understand your world and know that no one people can be all bad or good. there are good people and bad people in every country and culture. if this makes you hate all jews know that you have succumbed to oldest of racist means. you can condemn an act of a government or a group but to assign that guilt to their family and neighborhood and all such people is what we all must condemn. by xy
watch israeli historian and political scientist ilan pappe (jewish) debate journalist for jerusalem post melanie phillips (jewish)
and british born reporter and oxford graduate mehdi hasan (muslim) debate knesset member einat wilf (jewish)
since all middle easterners have been silenced and equated to “animals”, branded “incompetent, ignorant, uneducated and never to be believed”… it is nice to hear these words from 3 out of 4 speakers of jewish decent and one oxford graduated “muslim brown boy” that just maybe you can “half-believe”.
what is terrorism?
2014 gaza war – operation protective edge death tool – democracy now PBS
regardless of the bios, this is an interesting debate with some factual historic background to help you sort out your own thoughts. in this age of misinformation and propaganda please always research facts from several opposing sources in order to reach a best guess scenario. somethings of course, require no research – occupying, locking and controlling a people is wrong, kidnapping innocent civilians, killing the elderly and defenseless citizens is also outright wrong and all of them should be condemned. and while self defense is warranted to bring the perpetrators to justice, bombing an entire neighborhood, or schools, or a high-rises is no-way to justify getting a mass shooter inside. “collective punishment of civilians to achieve a political goal” is wrong and by definition is terrorism – no matter who partakes in that.
the troubles did not begin on oct 7th as many would like us to believe. the blood shed and oppression and resistance and terrorism has been going on for more than 75c years. our stance remains: condemn all collective punishment/terrorism no matter who partakes in them
bring the perpetrators to justice (*sometimes they are a group, sometimes they are a state)
free all hostages including wrongful detainment of political prisoners inside israel
stop the war and especially stop the killing of civilians – needless to say jewish, christian, or muslim… but especially atheists
negotiate a “just” peace with equally strengthened parties and an unbiased judge (meaning not the U.S.) to reach a two state solution or a one state with equal rights.
finally zionism is an ideology like communism, you can surely be against communism but not racist towards russians, or chineses who were communist or some of the founders of communism who where jewish. this is a mafia style gag order, routed in zero rational or reality.
…to peace and collaboration of all humans, and to everyone standing up to bullies, on the playground and on the world map – amen and dog bless america. by xy
sigmund freud (and his american nephew, edward bernays)
century of the self – adam curtis
leave it to adam curtis to set the records straight. the story of the relationship between sigmund freud and his american nephew, edward bernays. bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses. he showed american corporations how they could make people want things they didn’t need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires. bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar. his most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. but bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. it was a new political idea of how to control the masses. by satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile. it was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today’s world. originally broadcast on 29th april 2002. by uh
talent role in this love mystery: sofia wilen (the cashmere girl) also referred to as “miss w” was 27 years old at the time. she was an assange groupie. when she found out the wikiLeaks head was speaking in stockholm on august 14, she went to the event, insisted on spending the evening with assange and friends after the talk, and ended up alone with him at the cinema… they then had sex.
julian assange was 39 years old at the time. he was considered a soft spoken revolutionary cyber rockstar. he was first admired by the LEFT, for releasing the ‘truth’ about the iraq war, and having the RIGHT call for his assassination. he was then loved by the RIGHT and trump team, for releasing hillary clintons documents and ‘telling the truth to the public about hillary’ and hated by the LEFT, with hillary herself asking “cant we just take him out with a drone strike?” today he is abandoned by ALL and perishing in belmarsh prison, the gitmo of uk.
let me stop for moment for a little off-topic sidebar:
“…my pastor who graduated from brooklyn community baptist college down my street believes in god al mighty. but physicist cosmologist and cambridge graduate stephen hawking doesn’t… just this makes me atleast wanna look into it a bit more. now let me tell you who supports julian assange: they are noam chomsky, ken loach, ai weiwei, roger waters, and 338 intellectuals from 33 countries who signed a petition for his release. ok… back to sensationalism…
anna ardin was referred to as “miss a”, she was 31 at the time, and was working as an unofficial go-between for assange and journalists during his visit to stockholm. she also offered him her apt upon his arrival on august 11. they had sex several times at her one-room stockholm flat, giving details that were blocked out of the police transcript.
sex, lies and julian assange – four corners – four corners broadcasts on ABC TV: sex lies and julian assange
four corners is an award winning (Including 23 logie awards and 62 walkley awards) australian investigative journalism/current affairs documentary television program.
hero or villain julian assange – four corners
the us vs julian assange – four corners
whether you are on the left or the right or simply clueless, before you form an opinion on assange (or agree with tonight’s dinner table crowd narrative) you should watch this documentary. because if he was indeed the rapist, russian useful idiot, who helped trump… or the unpatriotic russian spy that they say he was… then all is fine, let him perish in jail. but if he was the champion of truth and the enabler of civilians holding to account the wrong doings of their powerful governments, then shame on all of us for abandoning him, and abandoning free press. by dd
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